This study analyses the financial well-being of elderly people across Europe. Using the European microsimulation model … extent to which these schemes serve to reduce the risk of poverty among elderly. The main findings show that there is a … elderly. Nevertheless, the financial well-being of older people depends crucially on the pension system as a whole. Countries …

solidarity benefit EKAS and complementos por mínimos, and (ii) the social pensions pension to uninsured elderly and pensión de …

A series of social benefits targeting vulnerable groups, such as the elderly population, has been implemented in … Ecuador over the last few decades. Elderly adults living in vulnerable conditions and not affiliated with social security are …. Our results show that increasing pension assistance to match the level of the poverty line in Ecuador would reduce elderly …

Eurostat data shows that children and elderly are especially at risk of being in poverty. In 2004 the average rates of … the elderly. We examine the role of the tax-benefit system in explaining this situation and analyse how much child poverty …